One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.

The motif of Faust's love for Helen of Troy goes back to the sources of the Faustian legend.

The Oxford Dictionary of Popes acknowledges that this legend was widely believed for centuries, even among Catholic circles, but declares that there is " no contemporary evidence for a female Pope at any of the dates suggested for her reign ," and goes on to say that " the known facts of the respective periods make it impossible to fit female Pope in ".

One legend concerning Asmodeus goes on to state that Solomon one day asked Asmodeus what could make demons powerful over man, and Asmodeus asked to be freed and given the ring so that he could demonstrate ; Solomon agreed but Asmodeus threw the ring into the sea and it was swallowed by a fish.

As the story goes, at the news of the Mongol approach, the whole town of Kitezh with all its inhabitants was submerged into a lake, where, as legend has it, it may be seen to this day.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

In Cornwall, a similar legend prevails, however, the saying goes that the devil urinated on them.

As local legend goes, one Griffin Tipsword came to this part of Illinois and took up his abode with the Kickapoo Indians.

As local legend goes, one of the construction engineers who built the railroad through Cabool also worked on railroad construction in Afghanistan and thought this area of southern Texas County looked similar to the region of Kabul, Afghanistan.

As the legend goes there was a mix up at the post office-a missing comma.

Originally, the township was named Roulet, until ( so the legend goes ) the Post Office Department misspelled it.

The legend goes that Gould wanted to bring his railroad through Jefferson but the town leaders refused because they had the river traffic.

The legend goes that during the siege the people of Geraardsbergen threw some of their food which was left over the city wall.

As the legend goes, when meeting Marcel Duchamp Ginsberg kissed his shoe and Corso cut off his tie.

Hence, he used " we " as " God and I ...," or so the legend goes.

In 1588 Brixham watched Sir Francis Drake attacking the Spanish Armada after he had ( so the legend goes ) finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe.

Herleva, legend goes, seeing the Duke on his ramparts above, raised her skirts perhaps a bit more than necessary in order to attract the Duke's eye.

The legend goes on to say that the Jews threw the pig's heart and the holy consecrated host into the river that ran through the city, and that in a few days a terrible epidemic developed among the pigs in the surrounding areas, many of which died.

The legend goes that he was so disgusted by the " primitive " Crucifix of Donatello in the Santa Croce church, that he made this one.

In this year ( so the legend goes ), the abbey messenger was robbed en route to delivering the order to harvest and the cutting was delayed for three weeks, time enough for the Botrytis to take hold.

In Qu's exile, so goes the legend, he supposedly produced some of the greatest early poetry in Chinese literature expressing his fervent love for his state and his deepest concern for its future.

The legend goes that Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( ca.

The buffalo goes back to a legend that the rules of Nan and Phrae were brothers, and met at a mountain to decide about the boundary between their lands.

The legend goes that the Chapel has appeared to be in flames, just before a high status death, but has later shown no damage from any such fire.

The Buckriders ( called the bokkenrijders in Dutch ) is a legend of Limburg.

The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".

Pausanias and Herodotus both recount the legend that the Achaeans were forced from these homelands by the Dorians, during the legendary Dorian invasion of the Peloponnese.

Lerner's personal foibles were the stuff of tabloid legend.

The success of this legend of origins was partly due to theories in anthropology, which were based on a tribal paradigm.

Nāgas were also characters in other well-known legends and stories depicted in Khmer art, such as the churning of the Ocean of Milk, the legend of the Leper King as depicted in the bas-reliefs of the Bayon, and the story of Mucalinda, the serpent king who protected the Buddha from the elements.

Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk, and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo.

Furthermore, frescoes and murals dealing with death had a long tradition and were widespread, e. g. the legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead: on a ride or hunt, three young gentlemen meet three cadavers ( sometimes described as their ancestors ) who warn them, Quod fuimus, estis ; quod sumus, vos eritis ( What we were, you are ; what we are, you will be ).

His meteoric rise and fall were clearly the stuff of legend, and few if any players, either before or since, have had such an immense impact over so brief a period.

Pohnpeian legend recounts that the Saudeleur rulers, the first to bring government to Pohnpei, were of foreign origin.

Depending on the version of the legend, the Jews in Prague were to be either expelled or killed under the rule of Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor.

The ancient Jewish people were also often viewed as being knowledgeable in magic, which according to legend they had learned from Moses, who himself had learned it in Egypt.

The Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the " Bonnie Prince Charlie " of legend, were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

Goering argues that they were the original inspiration for the Grail legend.

" This legend persisted for decades, despite the fact that Jeeps were never shipped from the factory in crates.

These works were the Estoire del Saint Grail, the Estoire de Merlin, the Lancelot propre ( or Prose Lancelot, which made up half the entire Vulgate Cycle on its own ), the Queste del Saint Graal and the Mort Artu, which combine to form the first coherent version of the entire Arthurian legend.

King Arthur and the Arthurian legend were not entirely abandoned, but until the early 19th century the material was taken less seriously and was often used simply as vehicle for allegories of 17th-and 18th-century politics.

As the Sibylline Books were housed in the fortress temple of Jupiter, their legend has been associated with him.

The legend of Asena is an old Turkic myth that tells of how the Turkic people were created.

In the legend of Rome's foundation, Romulus and Remus were found there by the lactating female wolf who suckled them until they were found by Faustulus.

These and many other details are likely embellishments that were added to his legend, or misinterpretations of literature describing him.

According to Māori legend, Aoraki was a young boy who, along with his three brothers, were the sons of Rakinui, the Sky Father.

( A company legend was that the MultiMate user manual was written first, by an experienced Wang WP manager, then the programmers were told to write software to match it, which is how the Wang WP was created.

Doubtless there is a considerable historical element in the legend, perhaps in the Phoenician origin of Europa ; it is possible that not only Athens, but Mycenae itself, were once culturally bound to the kings of Knossos, as Minoan objects appear at Mycenaean sites.